California Girl in New Orleans!

Monday, September 19, 2011

This is my last recap of my mini vacation to visit Megan! Last stop: New Orleans!

What a crazy city...one that I'm so glad to have experienced, but also glad to have only spent a short time in (: We stayed on Bourbon Street, which was great because I got the FULL experience. And by that I mean people were downstairs below our balcony partying until 3 am! Don'tcha worry though, we fell right asleep.

Here's our day in New Orleans in pictures...View from our hotel:

We went to the French Market to take a peek:

And get a Snowball..yum!

And happened to see Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's N.O's home:

Small on the outside, but it goes back almost 5,000 square feet!

We met a horse named Trixie...

And had the most delicious beignets from the famous Cafe Du Monde. Seriously my mouth is watering thinking about them!

One of Megan's college friends met us for breakfast. So sweet.

After we had breakfast, we went to see the beautiful cathedral behind Jackson square:

At dinner I tried some of Megan's black beans and rice...it was spiceyyyy! See?! This California girl is so not used to that taste!

Then we did something weird. Meg drug me to the cemetery...not my thing in the first place. But did you know they burry people above ground in cement blocks like this??

They aren't allowed to burry people under ground because New Orleans is below sea level and if you were to dig a hole, you'd hit water quickly!These are our scared faces:

Such a great trip! I am so blessed to be able to have gone and spent time in the south with Megan. I think I developed the travel bug now (:

I can't wait to show you some of my favorite homes I found while I was on the trip. They're coming later in the week!

Told ya you had to have the beignets!Now for a funny story...picture a young fresh out of school exec...asked to drive his bosses new porsche (expired tag, as he was moving and didn't want to pay twice)through New Orleans after stopping at Cafe Du Monde for beignets...young exec fails to remember said bag of beignets, puts the top down...can ya say white powder everywhere?!! Young exec praying the rest of the trip that he doesn't get stopped in a brand new porsche with expired tags that he doesn't own with white powder all over it! Priceless! (yes, that would be my sweet hubby)

Hahaha!! The black beans and rice face is my FAVORITE!!! How funny!! So proud of you for trying it, though! And how FABULOUS were the beignets????? Love love love love them and so glad you got to try them!! The pic of you and Meg at the fountain is absolutely adorable and I reeeeeally do hope you get to come back and visit again!!! Thibodaux is about 45 min SOUTH of New Orleans... you up for it??? :)

Fun fun! I'd love to travel east sometime. There are SO mammy amazing things to see. As for the cemetery, the first time I saw that was when I went to the Philippines - it was sooo strange. Have a great trip up! You may be able to catch the tail end of summer in Seattle!

LOVED your pics! New Orleans is one place on my bucket list...it was nice to visit through your blog! A question: could you let me know the name of the "handwriting" font you use on your blog post headers? LOVE it!